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Great events in india have been shaped by the politics of the lynch mob. The last and decisive impetus to the great divide between Hindus and Muslims, which in turn led to the bitter harvest of partition in 1947, was provided by the Muslim mobs of Calcutta who ravaged the city in 1946. In 1984, Sikhs were identified, torched and killed by sword and bullet after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. In 1992 the destruction of a mosque on a disputed spot in the holy city of Ayodhya, where the Himalayas begin to meet the plains, was followed by wanton...
Wang Manji was returning home with freshly dug sweet potatoes from her fields last October when she stepped into the most bitter event of her life. A deranged neighbor had abducted her 15-year-old son and was holding him ransom with a meat cleaver. His demands: $100 and a car. Fifty policemen came to the rescue?and then, Wang says, the dithering began. The abductor claimed to be related to a top cop, and, Wang says, "the officers spent all their time trying to figure out what kind of a relative he was." After a fruitless, 8-hr. standoff...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN His blue-collar anthems were both bitter and proud, lamenting the outrages, and reveling in the glories, of everyday life in America. Born in the U.S.A. isn't a patriotic showstopper but a song about a destitute angry...
...before the candidates are taken in as full members. "We like the symbolism of moving from the [1957 ] Treaty of Rome to another Treaty of Rome," says an Italian diplomat. The candidates will have none of that. "That symbolism isn't worth making almost half of Europe feel bitter," says Kavan. "The tensions that would generate would be hard to control." He is convinced the candidate countries have enough allies inside to prevent it but there could be a battle ahead on the question of timing...
...continues a series that may be painful to read for some - like me. Sub-titled "The true story of a real-life romance," the series chronicles the author's meeting and courting of the love of his life. It can be pretty brutal stuff for the lonely and bitter, yet hopeful too, told as it is with such enthusiasm and charm...